you want to give him soup and a hug...after you've slapped him upside the head for his utter stupidity. and I think this duality is what a.) makes him an interested, well-rounded character, b.) is why we bother to still write things about/with him. And yes, okay, he's visually attractive too, but...if he was boring? Yawn!
If it were a purely visual thing there are plenty of other character I would like that I do in fact HATE WITH A BURNING FIRE OF HATE (Spike and Sylar I'm glaring at you so hard I'm probably forgetting other characters, plus there's always Heathcliff for a classic example). Guy is so not my type of character usually and yet in this one case, I *love* him, and I *get* him even which at least as unusual (I confess I didn't the first time I watched season 1, but once I really got into the show and I watched it again, I even get him then). He's still so very human, destructively so a lot of times but he's the most real character on the show as far as I'm concerned so he's fascinating.
Guy is kind of like an expanded version of s3 Doctor Who. The Doctor went dark that season, but even when he was inflicting horrible punishments on people...I couldn't help thinking he just needed a hug. The poor heartbroken man was so alone and he lashed out at the world in some really iffy ways, and the Doctor's moral compass is a lot more reliable than Guy's (The Doctor's sometimes takes a while to remember to return to north, but Guy's has been demagnetized entirely so it's basically useless except the rare time he realizes it points at Marian, and I'm not sure this is a great metaphor so moving on)
Actually...if I can find wiggle room in what I remember of whether Guy left Seth there or not, I think it suddenly becomes a lot easier to work with because Vasey would *totally* screw him over like that (*cough*wouldn't be the first time or the last *cough*). I've read a couple of decent fanfic explanations for it, and I actually had a whole conspiracy constructed around it until...it actually started to make *some* sense and I thought maybe I could make it all make sense, but it wouldn't take too many conspiracy elements to make it make sense...I'll have to give this some thought as I near that section.
Actually come to think of it it's not unreasonable that he didn't, because as I recall Seth was still warm as if he hadn't been there too long, but Guy had been back in Locksley so as to chase after the Outlaws when they stole the horses, so there probably is wiggle room to be found. I will probably need to start rewatching things as I get up to show time, for quotes, to make sure I remember the plots correctly as in what order Guy knew and did what. But making sure to watch it from his perspective this time and not just a fan looking for reasons to forgive him like I did last time.
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If it were a purely visual thing there are plenty of other character I would like that I do in fact HATE WITH A BURNING FIRE OF HATE (Spike and Sylar I'm glaring at you so hard I'm probably forgetting other characters, plus there's always Heathcliff for a classic example). Guy is so not my type of character usually and yet in this one case, I *love* him, and I *get* him even which at least as unusual (I confess I didn't the first time I watched season 1, but once I really got into the show and I watched it again, I even get him then). He's still so very human, destructively so a lot of times but he's the most real character on the show as far as I'm concerned so he's fascinating.
Guy is kind of like an expanded version of s3 Doctor Who. The Doctor went dark that season, but even when he was inflicting horrible punishments on people...I couldn't help thinking he just needed a hug. The poor heartbroken man was so alone and he lashed out at the world in some really iffy ways, and the Doctor's moral compass is a lot more reliable than Guy's (The Doctor's sometimes takes a while to remember to return to north, but Guy's has been demagnetized entirely so it's basically useless except the rare time he realizes it points at Marian, and I'm not sure this is a great metaphor so moving on)
Actually...if I can find wiggle room in what I remember of whether Guy left Seth there or not, I think it suddenly becomes a lot easier to work with because Vasey would *totally* screw him over like that (*cough*wouldn't be the first time or the last *cough*). I've read a couple of decent fanfic explanations for it, and I actually had a whole conspiracy constructed around it until...it actually started to make *some* sense and I thought maybe I could make it all make sense, but it wouldn't take too many conspiracy elements to make it make sense...I'll have to give this some thought as I near that section.
Actually come to think of it it's not unreasonable that he didn't, because as I recall Seth was still warm as if he hadn't been there too long, but Guy had been back in Locksley so as to chase after the Outlaws when they stole the horses, so there probably is wiggle room to be found. I will probably need to start rewatching things as I get up to show time, for quotes, to make sure I remember the plots correctly as in what order Guy knew and did what. But making sure to watch it from his perspective this time and not just a fan looking for reasons to forgive him like I did last time.